Mobile Hardware / May 16, 2026
REDMAGIC 11S Pro leak points to visible liquid cooling and serious gaming-phone excess
New reporting says the REDMAGIC 11S Pro will launch on 18 May with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Leading Edition, dual wind-and-water cooling and an 8,000mAh battery.
REDMAGIC is preparing another full-throttle gaming phone, and the 11S Pro sounds like it has no interest in subtlety. A 16 May hardware report says the phone is set for an 18 May launch with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Leading Edition, RedCore R4, CUBE Qingtian Game Engine 3.0, 2K+144Hz super-resolution and frame support, dual wind-and-water cooling, a 6.85-inch true full-screen AMOLED display and an 8,000mAh battery.
This should still be treated as pre-launch reporting until the event locks everything down, but the direction is obvious. REDMAGIC wants to own the extreme gaming-phone lane: active cooling, visible internals, massive battery and performance marketing built around sustained sessions. For serious mobile players, the most important question will not be benchmark scores. It will be heat control after 30 minutes of real gameplay.
